The Continuing Crisis
The Continuing Crisis • ^ September, and the hopes and dreams of those splendid visionaries who persuaded the United Nations to solemnize 1975 as International Women's Year are finally being...
...Harris prodigiously enriched the chrestomathy of radicalism with an exhortation hauntingly reminiscent of the fieriest utterances of Frantz Fanon or Ch6 Guevara...
...She is a marvel...
...Randolph Hearst insists brainwashed his daughter by seating her for two months in a closet filled with her own excrement...
...Larry Buendorf...
...Senator Frank Church's committee is investigating the CIA for maintaining a program of unrestrained surveillance even as the artless Senator Joseph Montoya wonders aloud why the Secret Service has not followed a program of more surveillance...
...Moore was apprehended she has not stopped talking, except to eat and to catch an occasional forty winks...
...Senator Montoya promises to investigate...
...On September 18, an FBI agent and a policeman furtively entered a San Francisco apartment and apprehended the celebrated Ms...
...Harvard's professor James Q. Wilson, while doing a study of crime in England for The Alternative, was robbed of 20 pence in London's Soho district—proof that there is a sound rationale for our traditionally modest honoraria...
...A shabby performance some radical feminists might say, but reasonable persons must admit that Ms...
...Fromme's biography will be written in accord with the highest standards of scholarship...
...Washington, D.C...
...economy began to perk up...
...Ray Burgess, the Alabama legislator whose propensity for wearing guns into the Alabama House had caused his colleagues to proscribe such armament, his colleagues eulogized him as one who "contributed immeasurably to the enrichment of our cultural, economic, and everyday lives...
...As the bullet landed five feet from the visibly uneasy Mr...
...The jobless rate for September plummeted to 8.3 percent...
...Apparently from the moment Ms...
...At their arraignment Mr...
...Their value was estimated at $125,000...
...but September was marked by feminine attainments comparable to the glories of Helen of Troy or to that memorable night when Mrs...
...heard the sound of one hand clapping...
...Ford, after bouncing harmlessly against a nearby cab driver's groin, rough hands fell upon Ms...
...Twenty men, working three hours, removed the books in seven truckloads to the library...
...Standing in an interesting crowd outside San Francisco's St...
...Burgess, once quoted as saying his life was "a gift of God, and God gave me the ingenuity to protect it," was shot during a domestic tiff...
...Pointing a semi-automatic pistol before President Gerald Ford as he engaged in another wanton display of public handshaking, the pioneering feminist twitched the trigger and...
...Amin accepts Mr...
...Arrested the same afternoon were SLA veterans Emily and Bill Harris who were ambushed by dozens of agents as they trotted back from a midday jogging session, apparently under the assumption that sound bodies make sound minds...
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...Cal Cavendish flew over the heart of downtown Calgary and dumped one hundred pounds of manure on the city...
...And a District undercover policeman whose duty it was to stalk narcotics salesmen in taverns was retired on full disability pay, he having become a hopeless alcoholic...
...Traditional American anti-intellectualism reared its ugly head when a bookish New York City lawyer, Mr...
...Nevertheless, the forces of reaction will not go unchallenged, and, though Mr...
...Peron's Weltschrnerz, and the revelation that Mrs...
...O'Leary's cow undertook the urban renewal of two-thirds of Chicago...
...Newspapers and newsweeklies bulge with her blowzy locutions, inmates in her cell block have not gotten a full night's sleep since the garrulous activist arrived, and she has worn out at least one recording device...
...Francis Hotel, this extraordinary woman became the second woman ever to attempt the assassination of an American President, though Mrs...
...At her arraignment she voiced political ideals astonishingly similar to those of Jean-Paul Sartre and the New York Review of Books, causing Federal District Judge Thomas J. MacBird to place her under psychiatric observation...
...Finally, four weeks after the conclusion of the first World Congress of Sorcery held in Bogota, Colombia, vital signs in the U.S...
...Mr: Gregory Marton is suing a San Francisco sperm bank for losing his deposit, and in San Diego a progressive-minded judge has condemned the urologists of the nation for failing to aid him in a bold attempt to deal humanely 'with sex offenders Joseph Alonzo Kenner and Paul De La Haye...
...Has the need for a national health care program ever been more touchingly made...
...Moore and she began offering her views on Marxism, radicalism, herself, the power of the Presidency...
...Sara Jane Moore, a woman whose obvious quality of mind will make her one to conjure with as the women's movement continues its remarkable evolution...
...Warren G. Harding had often considered it...
...A novel form of nonviolent protest was resorted to by a Calgary, Alberta man who dissented from the Department of Transport's judgment that he was unfit to fly an airplane...
...Fromme's release and for film rights to her life...
...Both young men begged Judge Douglas R. Woodworth to have them castrated (bilateral orchidectomy) rather than sent to the calaboose, but according to Judge Woodworth, "A whole branch of the medical profession has been unwilling to extend a humanitarian service to these men, who face the prospect of being locked in a cage for the rest of their years...
...Less than a week after the death of the Rt...
...Joseph Feldman, was arrested for being overdue on some books borrowed from the New York Public Library...
...An incautious moment of pique by America's UN Ambassador may have imperiled our fragile relations with one of the Third World's most illustrious leaders...
...William Kunstler has yet to arrive in Sacramento, the New York Times reports that "Hollywood interests" have begun negotiating for Ms...
...Feldman, looking shaken but showing no signs of bitterness, gently protested, "I like to read...
...It was an admittedly peculiar act of revolutionary fervor, but then queer acts have come to characterize the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), that radical not-for-profit organization which Mr...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt had often considered it...
...What is more, the prestigious Macmillan Company purchased an option on book rights, assuring that Ms...
...Feldman's Greenwich Village apartment...
...Speaking before a labor convention in San Francisco, Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan quoted with apparent approval an editorial characterization of Uganda's President Idi Amin as a "racist murderer...
...Charles Manson —became the first woman ever to attempt the assassination of an American President, though Mrs...
...Outside the courtroom Mr...
...One exhausted attendant staggered away commenting that "she couldn't shut up for ten minutes...
...Fromme has—since her arrest—spoken affectingly of her love for the California redwoods, and doubtless galvanized national concern over the horrors of nuclear energy plants...
...continues to be the scene of great endeavor...
...It is a remark that could cost the United States dearly in its dealings with the dynamic chairman of the Organization of African Unity, unless, of course, Mr...
...Thus far the year had proved to be rather a disappointment what with Mother Gandhi's tergiversation to the old politics, Ms...
...Glaring out over the courtroom, Harris counseled his followers to "Keep on Truckin...
...Moynihan's remark as a compliment...
...On September 5, svelte Lynette Alice Fromme—devoted ecologist, feminist, and philosophical protege of Mr...
...The Continuing Crisis • ^ September, and the hopes and dreams of those splendid visionaries who persuaded the United Nations to solemnize 1975 as International Women's Year are finally being realized...
...Feldman was charged with a Class D felony after firemen found fifteen thousand New York Public Library books in Mr...
...The gun had failed her, and she was brutally accosted by a mob of Secret Service agents led by Mr...
...in fact she began elucidating views on practically every aspect of human existence in what has become perhaps the longest monologue in world history...
...Her bail was set at $350,000...
...Patty Hearst and an associate, but not before the beautiful young heiress declared her revolutionary scorn for The System by soiling her linen...
...The Washington Star reports that Senator Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy has employed the distinguished consulting firm, Arthur D. Little, to ascertain how other men of his age, size, and condition would have responded during the Chappaquiddick unpleasantness...
...Most amusing of all, that series of psychiatric examinations testing her fitness to stand trial devolved into a shambles...
...Ford is but a common sex maniac...
...She would be nationally syndicated were it not for the high cost of paper...
...Finally September 22 saw the rise from relative obscurity of Ms...
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